Special Collections Division
American Radicalism Collection
Edith and Arthur Fox Collection
Both Edith and Arthur Fox were long-time political and labor
activists in Detroit. They were employed in the auto industry
and militantly involved in union work, he in Local 600 (Ford
Rouge Plant) and she in Local 3 (Dodge Main in Hamtramck). The
collection has pamphlets, election material, and shop papers
which document their involvement in a number of dissident groups
within the United Auto Workers, including the United National
Caucus which lobbied for a more democratic union structure. As
members of the Trotskyite Socialist Workers Party they collected
a good deal of internal party material from the late 1930's to
the Vietnam war era.
